Difficult decisions in bariatric surgery

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This book provides a practical guide to decision making within bariatric surgery. Through uniform and well-structured chapters, topics relating to patient selection, preoperative preparation, the ethics of bariatric surgery, choice of procedure, complications, late failure and management, malabsorptive procedures, and pediatric bariatric surgery are discussed and examined. Difficult Decisions in Bariatric Surgery aims to help readers navigate an increasingly complex surgical specialty and come …

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Full title :Difficult decisions in bariatric surgery / John Alverdy, Yalini Vigneswaran, editors.

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Publication Date:2021

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Springer
Place of Publication:Cham
Language:eng
Publication Date:2021

Notes

Includes index.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (viii, 438 pages) : : illustrations (chiefly color)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9783030553296, 3030553299, 9783030553302, 3030553302, 9783030553319, 3030553310
DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-55329-6
oclc:on1228650771
LC Classification:RD540
Dewey Decimal:617.4/3

A patient, a surgeon, and an insurance agent walk into a bar -- Evidence-Based Medicine and Decision Making -- Bariatric surgery for uncontrolled hypertension -- Diabetes is an indication for bariatric surgery -- Procedure choice for treatment of diabetes -- Should patients with obesity hypoventilation syndrome undergo bariatric surgery -- Heart failure and bariatric surgery -- Cornary Artery Disease and bariatric surgery -- What are there nutritional "red flags" to look out for prior to bariatric surgery? -- Are there psychiatric diagnoses that preclude safe bariatric surgery? -- Does weight loss prior to surgery accurately predict success following bariatric surgery? -- The ideal weight loss diet for preparing a patient for bariatric surgery -- Is routine upper endoscopy and H. pylori testing indicated in advance of bariatric surgery? -- Manometry is useful prior to bariatric surgery -- Smoking cessation is essential prior to bariatric surgery -- Is the insurance requirement for supervised weight loss prior to bariatric surgery an ethical strategy to prevent non-compliant patients from undergoing surgery? -- Bariatric surgery in the young pediatric population -- Gastric banding,…

Subjects

Chirurgie Endocrinologie Endocrinology General Surgery Obésité -- Chirurgie Obesity -- Surgery Pediatrics Pédiatrie Surgery surgery (health care function)